I never read this as Nick slut-shaming anyone; just a real expression of genuine hurt. He and Andi were not on the same page about sex, which is bad, but doesn’t leave poor Nick deserving to be as crucified as he has been.

I agree completely - the bachelors on this season are all pretty much universally terrible. None of them have much of a personality; there’s very little chemistry between Kaitlyn and any of them. I don’t find any of them good looking, either, which is unusual (and I’m not terribly picky - the men on previous seasons…

When Nick and Kaitlyn met up on camera, neither one of them could hide their huge shit-eating grins. It’s obvious as hell that they already like each other quite a bit. I wish that this whole season just hadn’t happened.

She’s not really the Bachelorette type. She’s too fun, has too much of a personality, and she’s not the type of person to be wearing evening gowns.

when all the GOP candidates were asked what they’d be doing on a Friday night:

It was a different time. There was a freshness to those kinds of classic pieces. “Basic” was not an insult. People were looking for perfect, basic pieces all the time. The perfect white shirt. The perfect slim pant. That was the context.

I agree that they should be allowed to divorce and then do whatever the hell they want to do, including continuing to live together. The state isn’t legislating the _reason_ itself, though - just the after effects. Which are complete bullshit!

Isn’t Lying Cat female? She was the runt of the litter, I thought...

I’m actually upset that their government won’t allow them to get a divorce for whatever reason they want.

Call me old-fashioned, but, my parents taught me that if I couldn’t take care of it, I wasn’t ready to have it.

Poison for sure.

...actually, there IS precedent for this in some child development studies. The rise of “branded” kids’ toys has some interesting effects on imagination and attention. When you had to pretend a stick was a wand, you got to make up the rules. It was your world. Now, when you buy a Harry Potter(TM) brand wand, the world…

Eh... these stories - both fun and charming as they are - are presented as real. The humor is that they actually happened. They’re charming because we can laugh along with the main character (or cry along with, or be frustrated along with, etc). When it becomes clear that there’s no way they could have happened, they…

Agreed. The comic universe is massive; they had literal thousands of characters to draw from. Probably tens of thousands. Playing through the tutorial gave you two different batmans. It was myopic and weird.

Yeah, I don’t doubt that she was handed an opened soda by the attendant. But I am surprised at her statement that the man across the aisle said “You Muslim, you need to shut the fuck up.”

You ever hear that old chestnut about people turning purple? It goes like this: gay rights would be a completely solved issue if everyone who is gay turned purple overnight. The idea, of course, being that half the people who rage against gay rights are themselves gay, and the other half knows / loves someone who…

I would like to go get a Carvel ice cream cake with you anytime. I haven’t thought about Carvel for years! They made cakes with those little chocolate crunchies in them. Oh man.

You are making a (valid, data-backed) point that many famous people actively campaign for gay rights while remaining silent about reproductive rights. And you get called a homophobe for it?

I phrased it this way:

Well, India does have a persistent systemic rape problem. I wouldn’t say anything different about the U.S., either.